What Is To Be Done

Automatic writing from the great beyond. Poem fragments, mental illness, whatever. Come for the inscrutability, stay for the brevity

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  • 3/19/20

    A day like any other. A sentence being the building block of narrative. where we compound he problem, if only in writing. There are places where the mind can starve,…


  • 3/8/24

    Your language hides your ruthlessness in representation. The bodies keep washing up on the shore, and no one is left to toss them back to the sea. No lighthouse, no…


  • 2/26/24

    There is nothing here.


  • 2/22/24

    There’s a safety in the pattern. How it unfurls itself in front of you. It’s the map of your life here and there you’ve marked it in your secret language…


  • 2/21/24

    Our secret war: how we tumbled out onto the beach expecting rain only to find the sky everywhere with birds. I am dreaming our secret history. Worn down to a…


  • 2/20/24

    Lost in a century run-out and threadbare I am curled up on your shoreline. waiting waiting for some thing to rise out of the sea for something to happen for…


  • 2/19/24

    All the maps of Asia All the rivers, pulled up by their root and drained back into some sky above you There is no use for this, to be placed…


  • 2/18/24

    To ground the unground in being Sometimes in the dirt below sometimes lilting in the air sometimes a certain slant of sunlight illuminates the body where the churn spills out…


  • 2/17/24

    Back from the land of the ten thousand things for my birthday I came up on the shore like driftwood I’d been asleep under this speck on your map dreaming…


  • 2/16/24

    The eventuality of our departure . here in our afterlife. I am a foreign city, listing somewhere in the middle of the map. the geography of the body. It’s temperate…


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